Flowers! Workshop - final post

 Hello, here are a few more of my drawings and paintings done in the

Flowers! workshop with Jordan Wolfson. 

I had a single sunflower, so I stuck it in a tiny vase.

Here is the photo.

Other shots showing b&w, etc.

Using black and white paint to begin.

Partway through.

Just about done ...

Title tbd
oil on canvas panel
9 x 12 inches

I have an Orchid Cactus that bloomed during this workshop.

Bloom (Orchid Cactus)
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches

Pink Rose
Oil on Masonite
12 x 7.75 inches

Fav Bouquet Blooms
Oil on watercolor paper
10 x 7 inches

Charcoal drawing
24 x 18 inches

In the middle of painting a bouquet that included 

a large yellow Chrysanthemum (Mum),

I realized that I needed to find out how best to paint that Mum. 

So I began googling painters who painted flowers and found 

a Chrysanthemum painting by Piet Mondrian!

Most of you probably know him for his abstract, or "De Stijl" or "the style",

paintings that looked like this:

The painting that I found to copy and learn from is this:

Yellow Chrysanthemums in a Ginger Pot
by Piet Mondrian, c.1898

Yellow Chrysanthemums
after Piet Mondrian 
Oil on canvas

16 x 12 inches

So I tried again with this painting 

Title tbd
Oil on canvas
20 x 15 1/2 inches

My little Moth Orchid bloomed (and is still blooming),
so I am trying to do a painting of her.

wip

Not sure how it will end up, but it is all a learning experience.

So, until next post, thank you so much for reading,

and ... happy creating!

🎨

Oh, and please visit my website!

  Teri Robus Studio

Flowers workshop continued

Hi - another post from the Flowers! workshop

with artist Jordan Wolfson.

My last blog post HERE, showed the black & white charcoal drawing

and the one with oil paint (photos again for reference).

As a reminder, this is my charcoal drawing of the lilacs.

I don't feel the space here, yet. Since it is charcoal,

I can still work it.

This is my black & white painting using oil. It's not the edited mono
version but it looks like that! I do feel that there is form
and space around the lilacs and the glass they are in. Yay!

 Next stage is oil paint in color. I took one photo I think, of my progress.

Below is the final lilac painting. My goal is to show the visible space around the vase and the blooms, and to hopefully have it feel like there is form to the whole thing.

Hali's Lilacs IV

Thanks for reading! I will have one more post about this workshop.

Cheers and happy painting!

Teri   🎨

Flowers Workshop - Part 2

 

On the first day of our Flowers workshop, Part 2, with artist and instructor

 Jordan Wolfson, we began with drawing.

As Jordan explained, it will be different than the Part 1 sessions 

in that we will be exploring mark making, gesture, "making a mess" - 

not as much on the skills of finding form, geometry and structure, like last time. 

It will be much more of an "open exploration".

So here is my first effort using charcoal. 

I am still trying to find the space
around the bouquet and vase ... very hard!

Since I had been given some lovely Lilacs by my friend Hali this year 

(for the third year in a row) I decided to use them 

for the second class of the workshop.

I didn't have enough paper to have a
fully pink background,so try to imagine it.

first attempt

Lilacs - second/final stage
24 x 18
charcoal on paper

Our second class was still in black and white, but in my case with oil paint.

Lilacs b&w
16 x 20
oil on canvas

The next 2 weeks will be exploring with color, so stay tuned! 

and

thanks so much for reading! 🙏

all my best to you, and happy painting!

Teri

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Flowers Workshop - end Part I

 Hello dear reader -

If you recently read my June newsletter and are popping over here 

to see these last flower paintings from the workshop I was in, welcome! And if you

always check this blog and many times there is nothing new,

but now there is, welcome to you too! 

[By the way, if you ever just want to read/see what I have been up to in my studio - just click on the menu line that says Studio Journal, on my website ... you don't have to "join or follow" like it says in the sidebar on this page.]

This is the still life bouquet I was
looking at to paint this next exercise. The progress shots are below.

Pink Rose (I need to think of a title)
still life
oil on Masonite
12" x 7 3/4" 

bouquet & painting side by side

For my last Flowers Part I painting exercise, 

I had a few Alstroemeria stalks that were still in 

good shape so I popped them into one

of my favorite vases.

The following show the photo of what I was painting and the progression.

I used a piece of watercolor paper that
 I had previously coated with a turquoise-y acrylic paint as an underlayer 

On Their Way Out
(but still beautiful)
Still Life
Acrylic & oil on Watercolor paper
10" x 7" 

painting and bouquet

Ok, that is it for Flowers workshop Part I. 

Thanks for reading!

I will be blogging about the second Flowers workshop (Part II) 

from Jordan Wolfson,

and the other challenge paintings that our group has made.

If you haven't yet, I'd love for you to take a peek at My Website!

Happy Painting!

Teri

6th Challenge Painting - Collaboration!

 

Hi Studio Journal readers!
Today I am writing about our 6th painting challenge. For those of you who saw the Juneau/Douglas City Museum December 2024 exhibit, you might be interested in seeing how these paintings came together.

Challenge #6 parameters (chosen out of a hat with 18 ideas)

1 - Blind contour* drawing to begin painting 

2 - Collaborate with another member of our group and paint your work halfway through. Integrate your contributions so the original work can still be glimpsed.

3 - Rediscover an old successful painting or your own with the new parameters

First person responsibilities:

After contour drawing, paint all of the big shapes of the painting. 

Within each shape, paint 50% of it,

to what you consider to be “completed”.

Leave the rest to the next artist.

Timi’s to Teri

Teri’s to Patrick

Patrick’s to Timi

So, I hope that is clear for those who 

want to imagine what we did.

Here are the series of photos showing, first, my process 

for finishing the painting that Timi gave me to work on.

(Remember, she did the blind contour, 

from one of her own paintings, then painted it 50% of the way.)

The way Timi's painting looked when I took possession.

 
 

I got to work. I saw a cat.

Ok, here I was getting close, but realized that cats' legs 

do not bend like that! ... so we had our cat 

Haze Gray, model cat anatomy!

Big Hat, Big Cat  (sold)
oil on canvas
18 1/2" x 14 1/2"
by Timi Johnson
&
Teri Gardner Robus

Here is the original painting from which 

Timi based her blind drawing and her half-way painting.

Next, if your patience is still holding, here are the photos of how my painting

progressed and how Patrick finished it.

my blind contour drawing

This is my 50% finished - I handed it off to Patrick

Pear-fect Day
oil on panel
15" x 15"
by Teri Gardner Robus
&
Patrick Ripp

and my original painting:

Perfect Fit
collage & oil on wood panel
12" x 12"
(available)

And last collaboration - Patrick & Timi collab.

This is his halfway through painting; handed on to Timi:

Finished painting by Timi 

Oils of Provence Reimagined
acrylic and oil on primed Dacron
24" x 24"
by Patrick Ripp
&
Timi Johnson

Here is Patrick's original painting.

This was a challenging challenge ... aren't they all? 

Thank you for reading and check back for more posts about 

our challenge paintings.

Here's a link to my website.

Thank you for your support!

happy painting/viewing/collecting!

Teri

*Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise, when an artist draws the contour of a subject 
without looking at the paper that they are drawing  on.